Richard J. Davidson
American psychologist and neuroscientist, a pioneer of affective neuroscience and meditation research; founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for collaborations with the Dalai Lama and studies of mindfulness and emotion.
Books
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1. The Emotional Life Of Your Brain
How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live—and How You Can Change Them
A neuroscientist maps the brain circuits that shape six core emotional styles—Resilience, Outlook, Social Intuition, Self-Awareness, Sensitivity to Context, and Attention—showing how individual differences arise from activity and connectivity among regions like the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, insula, and hippocampus. Drawing on lab research and case stories, it argues these styles are measurable, malleable, and tied to well-being, and offers self-assessments and meditation- and behavior-based practices to recalibrate them, illustrating how changing habits can rewire the brain to enhance emotional balance, relationships, performance, and mental health.
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